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...NIRB Chairman Donald Richberg last week stuck his hand into the grab bag of NRA litigation and pulled out another case which he said the Government would quickly carry to the Supreme Court for the test the country seemed to demand. The case: U. S. v. A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp., Schechter Poultry Market, Joseph Martin, Alex & Aaron Schechter...
...Assistant President" Richberg produced a number of reasons for preferring the Schechter case to the Belcher case as a battleground for Constitutional appeal. Whereas the Belcher case had been routed around the Circuit Court of Appeals and its record consisted only of bare charges and a general demurrer, the Schechter case had a 1,647-page trial record, had passed from the district court through the Circuit Court. Not given as a reason for his preference was Mr. Richberg's enthusiastic declaration that the Circuit Court's Schechter opinion "sustained the constitutionality of NRA right across the board...
...page Schecnter record failed to bear Mr. Richberg out. Instead of sustaining NRA "right across the board," the Schechter decision barely placed NRA in the money. The Brothers Schechter operate the two largest jobbing plants in the unsavory $60,000,000-a-year Brooklyn poultry industry. Last year they were indicted on 19 counts for violating the Live Poultry Code. Seventeen counts found the Schechters outside the fair trade provisions of the code because they: 1) sold diseased and uninspected chickens; 2) permitted butchers to select the chickens they wanted killed; 3) filed false reports on their sales volume...
...award will be made by a committee of three consisting of Professor Toy, Professor J. H. Gardiner '85, and Dr. S. Schechter of New York...